Andrea Rosebrock 
Looks like Newport New, VA cop, Rashad I. Brown, 32, is gonna walk free and clear since the city voluntarily withdrew its animal cruelty charges against him. And I thought I couldn’t get much angrier over this then when the Judge returned the two abused dogs back to this POS with their fresh bruises and abrasions that a vet treated.
On March 16, responding to a neighbor’s complaint that they witnessed a man kicking one of dogs, and heard him beating another, animal control officer Angie Gromlich went to Brown’s St. Thomas Drive apartment only to be confronted by an arrogant and belligerent Brown siccing his dog, Lilly, a Labrador retriever on her. Brown was arrested and charged with two counts of animal cruelty and could have faced a maximum of 12 months in jail and a fine of up to $2,500.
Newport News voluntarily withdrew from the case “primarily because the principal witnesses moved to Connecticut,” said Allen Jackson, chief deputy city attorney.
The principal witnesses were two neighbors last month “who have given direct testimony what Brown allegedly did with the two animals,” Jackson said. (Daily Press)
Now wait a minute here! This waste of human life admitted beating the dogs, the vet examination showed “fresh abrasions and bruising consistent with being struck with an object and kicked” and he threatened an Animal Control officer… all of this aside from witness statements and Newport News doesn’t think they can still prosecute this trash?! I don’t get it.
Bad enough these poor dog were placed back in his custody within days and now I guess Rashad I. Brown was right when he said, “it is not against the law to beat your dogs or kids in Virginia, (and that) he knows this because he is a cop.” Well, maybe some of it is against the law but doesn’t look like VA does anything about it, especially if you’re a cop or maybe just a cop in Newport News since at the time he was just one of six officers facing criminal charges.
Pathetic… just pathetic!
What a arrogant B.
Tell me … no one can do anything about this? By the way … the judge is a Piece of S…!
Where is Justice in America? If things continue like this … one of these days … each and everyone will take justice into their own hands!
Well, as you all know, this just makes me sick. Send those precious baby’s to me. I love my choclate lab girl and despise this POS for hurting his. How insane, to believe it’s okay to beat and hurt your children and dogs. These people need a good face slapping and wake up call. What the hell? How can they say it’s okay? Has this freakin’ idiot “COP” looked into those beautiful, loving, adoring, compassionate eyes of those sweet labs? This guy needs to be destroyed and ASAP. How dare those A-holes give those precious baby’s back to this jerk! I hope somehow, somewhere this POS gets his and gets it good. Maybe he’ll go to some gang shooting or something and get’s shot and killed….we can only hope. Then those precious baby’s will get good, loving homes they deserve. I just can’t even begin to imagine what they were feeling when they were sent back to that hell and unloved again. Their eyes…their eyes. They say it all. Makes me so sad.
I am in shock~talk about corruption.Those poor sweet babies.When they end up dead it will be too late.My God to give an innocent animal back to someone you know is beating them is sickening!
Is there someone in authority in Newport News, Virginia, that we could contact to vent our extreme displeasure about how this case was handled?
this is what happens when good ole boy meets good ole boy and their mental conditions are just about the same. I guess that in that state you don;t have to know the law to be either a cop or a judge. Wish I could go live there for awhile, they would probably want me to be their next president I so darn smart. anyone that will hurt and innocent dog will not stop to think about hurting some one else and to think he is a cop that was sworn to up hold and protect. Thats just scary someone should get this to the governor of the state and see what he thins of it. I sure that would be easy to do…
I can’t believe that the judge let this go. What the hell is going on. Maybe it was bribe money. I wouldn’t put this past that judge. There seems to be more and more corrupt judges out there. Maybe we should contact the Senator and the Mayor of that town and whoever we can to voice our concerns. Perhaps we will get lucky and one of them will have a dog that is like family. As for the POS, let’s send him out to the island where he also belongs. He surely doesn’t deserve to be in the human race. I am seeing more and more of cops being violent, whether with an animal or a human. They think they have carte blanc as to what they can do. Can you get us the name of this judge? I would be willing to send a letter to that POS too. I will write it on everyone’s behalf too. When I am done he will feel like a real horses Ass.
This is clearly shamefull cover-up! There should be petition regarding this case. I would be one of the first people to sign it. Brutal cop and cruel judge… What a heartless duet!
Enough that we all know this is the worst of the worst.
It’s time we do a Petition on Care2 and send it to the mayor and whomever. Action is the only way to send the message that this piece of garbage is not COP material!
How many COPS in that town have a loving animal to share their lives with, huh? Stand up and be counted, for God’s sakes.
After hearing and seeing these types of situations for years and just haveing been charged with a misdemeanor because of sending a letter to a animal(cat) killer I truly beleieve the law does NOT protect the inncocent only the guilty. Hopefully the other police will not back him up if he gets in trouble. Let him fight his way out or not!!!!
I know it won’t do any good but I sent the following email to the City of Newport News at city@nngov.com:
It is unbelievable that charges were dropped against Rashad Brown and that the dogs he beat and kicked were returned to him. It is even more unbelievable that he is not a criminal but a police officer and that he stated “It is not against the law to beat your dogs or kids in Virginia.” With that attitude I hope he has no children.
Please rest assured that my family will make a point of avoiding Newport News in our travels through Virginia since we have no desire to run into anyone with that sort of attitude wearing a badge and carrying a gun